Issue No. : 2

October, 2012

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SCHOOL EVENTS FEATHER IN THE CAP (Achievements)

Page 4 PAPER, INK AND THINK… MUSE (Arts & Entertainment)

Page 5 ONE IN A MILLION (Where we inspire…)

Page 6 CORRIDOR TALK (Students’ Contribution)

Page 7 LEISURE

Behind The Scenes...

Mrs. D.S Srivastava

Mrs. Sulagna BanerjeeMrs. Priya Nair

Mrs. Alpa Pandya

STANDARD XI:Aditi Lalla

Akul GhormadeArijit Banerjee

Jash ShahMitanjali SinglaTanya Kusum

Send us your suggestions,queries, feedback andoriginal contributions( s tories, poems, articles,artwork etc. )

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EVENTSRajhans Vidyalaya celebrated Teacher’s Day on 5th Sept, 2012 with great enthusiasm.The Chief Guest for the program was Mr. D. D. Udeshi , our school trustee. Mr. D.DUdeshi, our director Capt. B.C Kumavat, Bursor- Shri Ajay Naik and thePrincipals and Supervisors of all the three schools were welcomed with bouquet offlowers. The students expressed their love and respect to every teacher throughlovely handmade bookmarks and a rose. The program was inaugurated by lighting alamp followed by a welcome song.

Feather in the capJUDO

Devika Devrajan of std 8 won a silver medal at district judo championship. She is selected for state tournament.

SOFTBALL

Amit Sahai and Harshal Mahajan have received Rs. 10,000 as scholarship for representing Maharashtra in the soft-ball team for nationals.

In the DSO tournament, boys and girls U-14 were Mumbai zone winners; boys and girls U-17 were runner ups.

The boys and the girls U-14 represented Mumbai zone for the state softball tournament held at Vardha, Nagpurfrom 28th August to 1st September 2012.

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Paper, ink and think…

The Spirit That Faded

The parliament in its recent sessions has made it clear that there willbe no further action on framing of the Lokpal Bill any time soon. Sowhat is the reason behind this failure of months of protests?

There have been so many talks about the fight against corruption andtaking steps to exonerate it. But has anyone thought that whatseemed to have been a revolutionary movement almost a year back isnow just a thing of past. Just like other issues in India this also hasbeen handled with a “it’s fine” attitude. This is not only the case withthe masses but also with the leaders who took the first initiative.Team Hazare itself has had its dark patches in the course of time butthe way it has cracked down is just unbelievable.

This has not only brought down the zeal to fight against the menaceof corruption but has also given a chance to the resistance to taketheir hold over the situation. I-T raids on members of Team Hazarehas totally killed the spirits. With the yoga guru Ramdev Baba takingon the charge, it’s quite visible how Anna Hazare suddenly ending hisfast has hurt the movement. It all started when Annaji ended his fastand decided not to opt for demonstrations.

This is all disappointing because one thought that the end of Corrup-tion was round the corner, but after this big failure the evil of corrup-tion has strengthened its position. With no prominent leader to spear-head the movement, our expectations from our nation aren’t realisticin the near future; unless anyone has a “reset” button to press.

The bottom line is that, the fight we all had put up was no match forthe pest that has infiltrated our society so deeply. So if we want thenation to be right, it is high time that the anger that we have is trans-ferred to the spirit of hope and resume the fight. This time the entirenation needs to be brought out. With only the middle class it is impos-sible to put up a fair fight. Just like the freedom struggle, unity needsto be at the very foundation. And this should begin right at our owndoorstep.

A voice that starts from our house and reaches the house of the na-tion, the Parliament, is needed.

What we want needs to be earned and this time it is not going to beeasy.

So let’s take charge...

museArts and Entertainment

Music, the moment one hears itthey lighten up with joy and relief.Today music has become an inte-gral part of the youth. They areready to stand for hours in the ticketline to see one glimpse of their Fa-vorite singer, ready to stand underthe scorching heat of the sun to getthe first copy of an album. For someit’s as important as breathing; forsome even more.It is amazingly unnoticed how muchwe rely on music socially. It’s a ma-jor criterion when we make newfriends and gives us a reason tokeep in touch with old friends. Buteven more than that, it is a com-panion for life – it is a shoulder tocry on when you’re miserable, awall to scream at and yell out in an-ger and frustration, a good friendfor when you’re in a mood for utternonsense, and best of all, a soul-mate for when you’re too confusedto feel anything else.Music affects us all in these ways,albeit to varying degrees. While forsome of us, our life is a musicalcomposition, for others it is but abackground score.

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One in a million(Where we inspire…)

The professor stood before his class of 30 students, about topass the final exam. I have been privileged to prepare for thistest. ‘I also know most of you are off to college next year’ hesaid to them.

“I am well aware of how much pressure you are under to keepyour marks up, and because I know you are all capable of under-standing this material, I am prepared to offer an automatic ‘B’to anyone who would prefer not to take the final exam.”

The relief was audible as a number of students jumped up tothank the professor and departed from the class. The professorlooked at the handful of students who remained and offeredagain,’ Any more takers?’ This is your last opportunity. One morestudent decided to go.

Seven students remained. The professor closed the door andtook the attendance. Then he handed out the final exam paper.There were only two sentences typed on the paper:‘Congratulations’ you have just received an ‘A’ in the class. Keepbelieving in yourself.’

Sent in by:Akanksha Jha

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Dev Desai’s winning essay on ‘ShouldDr. Kalam be made President again?’The essay won first prize on DNA’s YA!Essay Writing Competition.

Dr. Kalam should not be made thePresident again. The no is not because of Dr.Kalam’s capability as an individual, but ratherbecause of the post in question, i.e. the Presi-dent. In fact the post of the President itselfmust be done away with in India for a numberof reasons. First of all, the Presidential posthas become obsolete as most Presidents havebeen nothing more than rubber stamps. In partthe colonial hangover and blind worship of theBritish model of governance isbehind the creation of the post of the Presi-dent in India (they had a monarch above thePrime Minister, so we too must have some-one).Secondly the amount of taxpayers’ moneywasted on preserving the dignity of this post istremendous. This not only includes mainte-nance of the enormous Rashtrapati Bhavan(which would be much better off as a hospitalor some other building of public utility) but alsoequally exorbitant costs of foreign trips (with alarge convoy) and post retirement benefits,as the case of the current President shows.This wastage of public money is somethingwhich a country like India simply cannot afford.Thirdly, the focus of Presidential elections hasbeen more on political affiliations, caste, relig-ion, region etc. and less on merit. Similar is thecase with most Governors, whose main task isto jeopardize opposition ruled state govern-ments. So both these posts must be scrapped.Hence if we truly need a President then webetter adopt the US model where the Presidenthas a lot more authority (this would also en-sure stability and avoid blackmail by allies).Until then neither Dr Kalam or anyone else(not even God himself) is going to be able tobring any major positive changes by being thePresident; if Dr Kalam were indeed to be ap-pointed it would only amount to wasting his tal-ent.

Contributed by:

Vedica Sethi

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